Educational Technology

Dramatized Experiences;

Teaching with Dramatized Experiences

Teaching with Dramatized

Experiences
Dramatic experiences come next to contrived
experiences in the cone of experience.

Do these dramatic experiences require us to be

dramatic in our entrance and in our lesson
presentations?

Teaching with Dramatized

Experiences
Dramatic is something that is stirring, affecting
or moving.

Dramatic Entrance is something that catches

and holds attention, and has emotional impacts.

Teaching with Dramatized

Experiences
Dramatized Experiences can range from:

Formal

Plays

Pageants
Tableau
Pantomime
Puppets
Role-playing

Teaching with Dramatized

Experiences
Plays depict life, character, culture, or a
combination of the three.

They offer excellent opportunities to portray

vividly important ideas about life.

Teaching with Dramatized

Experiences
Pageants are usually community dramas that
are based on local history.

An example is a historical pageant that traces

the growth of a school.

Teaching with Dramatized

Experiences
Pantomime is an art of conveying a story
through bodily movements.

The effects of pantomime to the audience

depends on the movements of the actors.

Teaching with Dramatized

Experiences
Tableau is a picture-like scene composed of
people against a background.

Teaching with Dramatized

Experiences
Puppets - A puppet is an inanimate object or
representational figure animated or manipulated
by an entertainer, who is called a puppeteer.

Puppets can present ideas with extreme

simplicity.

Teaching with Dramatized

Experiences
Types of Puppets

Shadow

puppets flat, black silhouette

made from lightweight cardboard shown
behind a screen.

Teaching with Dramatized

Experiences
Types of Puppets

Glove-and-finger

puppets make use of

gloves which small costumed figures are
attached.

Teaching with Dramatized

Experiences
Types of Puppets

Marionettes

flexible, jointed puppets

operated by strings or wires attached to a
cross bar and maneuvered from directly
above the stage.

Teaching with Dramatized

Experiences
Role-Playing is an unrehearsed, unprepared
and spontaneous dramatization of a situation
where assigned participants are absorbed by
their own roles.